April is Fair Housing Month. How to handle a sensitive topic with grace

As real estate professionals, we are often our clients’ first and sole trusted advisers, writes Dr. Lee Davenport. It’s key that we proactively “school” them on what fairness in real estate looks like. Continue reading

Zavvie to power cash offers for American Financial Network

About 1,150 AFN loan originators nationwide will be able to offer clients access to zavvie’s cash offer programs under a partnership announced Tuesday. Continue reading

LeadingRE adds ‘Notable’ partner to Solutions Group

Leading Real Estate Companies of the World has selected a new partner for its Solutions Group in Notable, a pay-at-close home renovation vendor. Continue reading

Gold Star taps Loanscape to streamline broker onboarding

Counterparty risk and oversight platform provider Loanscape says customizable questionnaires and document requests allow lenders to automate up to 80 percent of the workflow when onboarding mortgage brokers and correspondents. Continue reading

6 ways to cover your kids’ college costs with real estate investment

If you plan to help out with your kid’s college tuition, there are a variety of real estate investment strategies that can help. Continue reading

What today’s high-performance teams know (and now you do, too)

Author and trainer Bernice Ross and Verl Workman, co-founder of Workman Success Systems, discuss the strategies top-producing teams are leaning into now. Continue reading

14 questions to ask yourself before becoming a team leader

Leading a team can offer tremendous professional rewards if you go into it with the right mindset. Emily Bossert and Melanie Klein guide you through an exploration of your strengths and challenges so that you can be truly prepared Continue reading

Title underwriter TRG inks $85M merger deal to take Doma private

If approved by shareholders and regulators, the proposed merger would result in an all-cash transaction, with TRG acquiring Doma’s outstanding shares at 38 percent premium of $6.29 per share. Continue reading

Latest inflation numbers don’t rule out June rate cut, economists say

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge moved in the wrong direction last month for the first time since September, but core inflation fell for the 13th consecutive month, to 2.8 percent. Continue reading